Ribbon or label holder for hats



(No Model.)

W. GARRIGK.

RIBBON 0R LABEL HOLDER FOR HATS. No. 278,877. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES FFICEQ 'ILLIAM (/ARRIOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,877, dated June 5, 1883. Applicationfiled March 22,1883? (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TILLIAM Cameron, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Ribbon or Label Holders for Hats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a convenient device for securing to the inside of a hat a ribbon or label having the-owners name or initials. Such ribbons have generally been stitched to the lining ofthe hat but owing to the shape of the hat it is a somewhat difficult operation to stitch the ribbon so that it will lie smoothly in the hat.

Hy invention consists in aresilient frame or clamping-plateadapted to secure itself to the interior of a hat andto clamp the embroidered ribbon against the crown of the hat, said frame or plate being constructed to lettering on the ribbon. A

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1. represents a view of the under side of a hat having my improved ribbon-holder. Fig. 2 represents a section on linea a, Fig. 1.. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged sectional view of one end of the holder and aportion of the hat. Fig. 4 represents a side view of one end of the plate or holder. Fig. 5 represents a modification.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (t represents a hat, and b the usual ribbon, having the name or initials of the owner.

0 represents my improved device or holder for securing the ribbon b to the hat. Said device is aresilient plate or frame, of sheet metal or other suitable material, long enough to extend across the interior of the crown of the hat an d bear at its ends against the sides thereshow the I of, behind the sweat-band g. The ends of the holder are preferably provided with points or teeth 0, adapted to penetrate slightly the body of the hat, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, and thus secure the holder to the hat in an arched position.

To seem-e the ribbon to the hat the ribbon is laid in place in the hat, and the holder 0 is then placed against the ribbon and engaged at its ends with the sides of the hat-body. The holder is nearly straight when in its normal If desired, the holder may be adjustable in width, in which case it should be made of two parallel strips or side pieces connected by ex tensible cross-strips. Instead of a frame or plate constructed as described, two strips or side pieces may be employed, entirely detached from each other, each hold-ing one edge of the ribbon and engaged with the hat at its ends.

I do not limit myself in all cases to provid ing the holder with points a at its ends. The holder ,may be of sufficient length to bear at its ends on the lower portion of the sweatband and be supported by the latter.

My improved holder may be applied to fiatcrowned hat-s as well as to those of the form shown in Fig. 2.

A modification is shown in Fig. 5, in which the holder is composed of foularms pointed at their ends and adapted to engage with the hat-body, like the examples above described. This form of holder, instead'of clamping the ribbon against the crown or lini gg of the hat, would usually be secured to the back of the ribbon by stitches, or otherwise, and placed next the crown or lining, so that it would be covered, or mainly so, bythe ribbon. I do not therefore limit myself to the holder to clamp the ribbon against the crown. The last-described form is adapted for a large ribbon or piece of material with a monogram.

I am aware that the lining of a hat has been provided with a pocket sewed to the lining and open at one end to receive a card.' My improved holder, however, is not secured to the lining of the hat, but is engaged at its ends with the sides of thehat-body, a-ndis pressed by its own resilience against the crown of the hat, or the lining thereof.

I claim 1. A hat ribbon or label holder composed of a resilient strip or plate adapted to be err IOO gaged at its ends with the sides of a hat-body, In testimony whereof I have signed 111) name and to be pressed by its own resilience against to this specification, in the presence of two sub- IO the crown thereof, as set forth. scribing witnesses, this 20th day of March,

2. A hat ribbon or label holder composed of 1883. y r a resilientplate, strip, or frame having hooks \VILLIAM GARRICK. or points at its ends, adapted to be pressed into I \Vitnesses: the sides of the hat-bod by the resilience of C. F. BROWN,

the plate. A. L. XVHITE. 

